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Q Assignment: You are conduct research and decide ONE issue of criminal justice reform would make a good issue for this African American community. You should choose an issue that you believe would be viable and reasonable to get passed through the legislative process. This could be a state or federal issue. Frame your response with the headings in bold (Below) FORMAT YOUR ANSWER AS SHOWN BELOW. Failure to comply with directions may result in a fail. 1. Summary & Recommendation: Here you will tell me why you chose your issue. 2. Background & Data: Here you are to explain why this issue is important using as much data related to your choice. It should be at least 1000 words minimum, turned in on Canvas. Websites for you to begin research: Go to the Sentencing Project Website: Link (Links to an external site.) Criminal Justice Reform Project Link (Links to an external site.) https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/black-candidates-dnc-dccc/566297/ (Links to an external site.) Why American Needs a Black Agenda https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/america-needs-black-agenda/ (Links to an external site.) Pew Research on African Americans (Data) https://www.pewresearch.org/topics/african-americans/ (Links to an external site.) https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/11/08/the-2018-midterm-vote-divisions-by-race-gender-education/

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1. Summary and recommendation. Americans are rethinking the criminal justice system through partisan, ideological, and ethnic lines. This is completely appropriate—and necessary. Despite this, many discussions, debates, and policy prescriptions on this subject are not based on solid evidence. Convoluted and often conflicting facts are often quoted, weakening attempts to improve a system that is broken in many ways. By placing decades-long crime and punishment patterns in relevant historical and comparative contexts, this chapter aims to provide people and policymakers—including the next president—with a structure for evaluating the opportunities and challenges of criminal justice reform. African Americans have been denied economic mobility by both legal and illegal means due to a long and violent history of discriminatory policies. While the post-Reconstruction period and Jim Crow policies resulted in brutal results for African Americans, Southern and national politicians' responses to the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s continued to support oppressive policies. For the last 50 years, this so-called Southern strategy has dominated conservative politics and policy, harming African Americans to this day. The issue that I shall discuss here is : Structural racism and barriers to prosperity.